Medievel to Renaissance 1 Renaissance re-birth A RE-BIRTH OF WHAT??
Ancient Rome CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY 2
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Interior of the Pantheon, Rome, Italy, 118 125 CE. 4
Pantheon, Rome, Italy, 118 125 CE. 5
By 467 AD Rome had fallen, and within a few hundred years only ruins remained 6
The Savage State 7
The Arcadian or Pastoral State 8
The Consumation of Empire 9
Destruction 10
Desolation 11
12 The Dark Ages..were really this dark?.and why were they called The Dark Ages
those who work, those who fight, those who pray 13
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Feudal serfs of the middle ages had almost no say in the direction of their own lives. 15
Christian Cosmology 16 The Ptolemaic World The World Dome Understanding of the word was limited, and your place in it was static and unquestioned.
The Great Chain of Being 17
18 The world of now was seen as less real or important the the world after death the kingdom of heaven Your suffering and pain soon to be redeemed
19 In the Middle Ages, the position of the viewer changed.. Instead of individuals observing the world as the artists of classical antiquity did.
20..the individual is dissolved and is looked down upon by larger, intimidating spiritual forces
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23 Subject matter is exclusively religious. There is little variety, originality, or idea of art serving a purpose of pleasure or leisure.
Italy Around 1400 the once great Roman Empire 24
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1348 --The Black Death 26 Estimated to have killed 30% 60% of Europe's population, reducing the world s population from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million in 1400. This has been seen as creating a series of religious, social and economic upheavals which had profound effects on the course of European History. It took 150 years for Europe's population to recover. Because the plague killed so many of the poor population, wealthy land owners were forced to pay the remaining workers what they asked, in terms of wages. Because there was now a surplus in consumer goods, luxury crops could now be grown. This meant that for the first time in history, many, formerly of the peasant population, now had a chance to live a better life. Most historians now feel that this was the start of the middle class in Europe and England.
meanwhile 27 The Fall of Constantinople (formerly the Byzantine Empire) in1453 to the Ottoman Empire meant that many scholars soon arrived in Italy with knowledge of Greek thinkers like Plato that had been lost or forgotten in the Middle Ages. A new interest in antiquity is sparked
28 Humanism A cultural and intellectual movement during the Renaissance, following the rediscovery of the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. A philosophy or attitude concerned with the interests, achievements, and capabilities of human beings rather than with the abstract concepts and problems of theology and science. A focus on human beings
29 Niccolò Machiavelli The Prince A practical manual for young rulers that did not appeal to Christian Morality. Machiavellian today refers to someone who is scheming and sometimes unethical.
Renaissance Humanists Established a vernacular literature 30 The Decameron
CIMABUE, Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets, from Santa Trinità, Florence, Italy, ca. 1280 1290. Tempera and gold leaf on wood, 12 7 x 7 4. Galleria degliuffizi, Florence. 31
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33 A movement slightly forward Gold=light of heaven Spatial contradictions Diagonals draw you slightly in Cult of Mary important to the Medieval mind-less intimidating, speaks to god on your behalf Christ is small, but does not have proportions of an infant Shows influence of Byzantine tradition
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GIOTTO DI BONDONE, Madonna Enthroned, from the Church of Ognissanti, Florence, Italy, ca. 1310. Tempera and gold leaf on wood, 10 8 x 6 8. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. 39
40 Mary has solidity, stability, substance-not spiritual immateriality Angels stand on a more common level Light and shadow chiaroscuro, not flatness
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